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From: woody@eos.UUCP (Wayne Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Dumb/easy question
Message-ID: <5514@eos.UUCP>
Date: 6 Nov 89 17:38:49 GMT
References: <140@mscf.med.upenn.edu> <4376@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <954@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: woody@eos.UUCP (Wayne Wood)
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In article <954@castle.ed.ac.uk> djm@castle.ed.ac.uk (D Murphy) writes:
>In article <4376@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> unkydave@shumv1.ncsu.edu (David Bank) writes:
>>         If you don;t have and/or can't afford such a program or
>>one like it, you can use the DOS program ATTRIB to alter the file
>>attribute bits and make it a non-Hidden file and then erase it normally.
>>
>>Unky Dave
>>unkydave@shumv1.ncsu.edu
>>> 
>
>Umm - I'm not sure this is true. I think ATTRIB will only allow you to
>change the read-only and archive bits. If you try using, say, ATTRIB +H 
>it doesn't hide the file.
>
>
my DOS  [3.1] has chmod which will do the job...




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